Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:15:50 -0800
From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To: mjacob@feral.com
Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Bumping up {MAX,DFLT}*PHYS (was Re: Bumping up {MAX,DFL}*SIZ in i386)
Message-ID: <200102052115.f15LFoe01152@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:09:54 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102051304200.2887-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
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> It seems to me that the physio should just be beefed up to take an argument to
> a 'parameterization' function, and that flags could be used that say "we don't
> even need this mapped any where- just make sure that the pages referred to are
> resident".
This is more or less what Matt was talking about; the mapping of buffer
pages into linear KVM should be optional based on a driver attribute (or,
perhaps preferably, only performed at the driver's request).
I'm sure that someone will eventually get around to doing something about
this...
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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